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With no election date fixed in law, there was speculation as to when the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, would call an election. On 18 December 2023, Sunak told journalists that the election would take place in 2024 rather than January 2025. [64] On 4 January, he first suggested the general election would probably be in the second half of 2024. [65]
The Wellingborough by-election saw a swing of 28.5% which was the second highest swing from the Conservatives to Labour in a by-election since 1945. [170] In March 2024, the Conservatives recorded their lowest vote share in polling with Ipsos since they began recording the poll in 1978 at 20%, 27 points behind Labour. [171] [172]
Rishi Sunak said it remained his assumption that he would call the election in the second half of 2024 amid speculation about a May polling date. Sunak says ‘nothing has changed’ in his ...
On 22 May 2024, in a surprise announcement, Sunak called a general election for 4 July. [17] Rishi Sunak giving his final speech as Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. Labour won the general election in a landslide, ending 14 years of Conservative government. Sunak conceded the election at 4:40 am on 5 July.
With his Conservative Party consistently about 20 points behind Keir Starmer's opposition Labour in the polls, Sunak made a new appeal on Tuesday to what one Conservative lawmaker described as ...
Sunak took many of his own lawmakers by surprise when he called the election Wednesday, in an ill-starred televised announcement outside 10 Downing Street that saw him drenched with rain and ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election took place on 4 July 2024. [1] Counting began after conclusion of voting at 22:00 the same day and the results for almost all constituencies were declared in the early hours of 5 July. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party lost over 240 seats
The Prime Minister must contend with delivering his five pledges, choosing when to call an election and criticism from his predecessors. The challenges facing Rishi Sunak ahead of the next general ...